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Terms and Conditions
What are cookies?
Cookies are pieces of information placed on your browser when you visit a website or use a social network with your PC, smartphone, or tablet.
Each cookie contains different data such as, for example, the name of the server it comes from, a numerical identifier, etc.
Cookies can remain in the system for the duration of a session (that is, until you close the browser used for web browsing) or for long periods and may contain a unique identification code.
What are cookies used for?
Some cookies are used to perform computer authentication, session monitoring, and storage of specific information about users who access a web page.
These so-called technical cookies are often useful because they can make web browsing and usage faster and easier, for example by facilitating certain procedures when you shop online, when you log in to restricted areas, or when a website automatically recognizes the language you usually use.
A particular type of cookie, called analytics, is then used by website managers to collect information, in aggregate form, on the number of users and how they visit the site itself, and thus to process general statistics on the service and its use.
Other cookies, on the other hand, can be used to monitor and profile users while browsing, study their movements and web browsing or consumption habits (what they buy, what they read, etc.), also for the purpose of sending targeted and personalized advertising (so-called Behavioural Advertising). In this case, we are talking about profiling cookies.
For example: Have you ever visited a service site, used your webmail, or accessed your page on a social network and found advertising banners related to your latest web searches or your last purchase made on the Internet?
This happens because those web spaces are designed to recognize your PC or another device you use to connect to the web (smartphone, tablet), and possibly direct you "profiled" promotional messages based on your searches and your use of the Internet.
It can also happen that a web page contains cookies from other sites and contained in various elements hosted on the page itself, such as advertising banners, images, videos, etc. In these cases, we are talking about so-called third-party cookies, which are usually used for profiling purposes.
Thus, the cookies you download to your PC, smartphone, and tablet can also be read by other entities, different from those who manage the web pages you visit.
Cookies and privacy
Given the particular intrusiveness that profiling cookies (especially third-party ones) can have in the private sphere of users, European and Italian regulations provide that the user must be adequately informed about their use and give valid consent to the placement of cookies on their device.
In particular, with the provision "Identification of simplified procedures for the information and acquisition of consent for the use of cookies" of May 8, 2014 [web doc no. 3118884], the Data Protection Authority established that when accessing the home page or another page of a website that uses cookies for profiling and marketing purposes, a clearly visible banner must immediately appear, clearly indicating:
1) that the site uses profiling cookies to send targeted advertising messages;
2) that the site also allows the sending of "third-party" cookies, in case this type of cookie is used, i.e., cookies installed by a different site through the site you are visiting;
3) a link to a more detailed policy, with information on the use of cookies sent by the site, where it is possible to deny consent to their installation directly or by connecting to the various sites in the case of "third-party" cookies;
4) the indication that by continuing to browse (e.g., accessing another area of the site or selecting an image or a link) you consent to the use of cookies.
In any case, in addition to the protections provided, you also have other options for browsing without cookies
Block third-party cookies
Third-party cookies are generally not essential for browsing, so you can refuse them by default, through specific functions of your browser.
Enable the Do Not Track option
The Do Not Track option is present in most latest-generation browsers. Websites designed to respect this option, when enabled, should automatically stop collecting some of your browsing data. As mentioned, however, not all websites are set up to respect this option (which is discretionary).
Enable "anonymous browsing" mode
With this function you can browse without leaving traces of your browsing data in the browser. Sites will not remember you, the pages you visit will not be saved in the history, and new cookies will be deleted.
The anonymous browsing function does not, however, guarantee anonymity on the Internet, because it only serves not to keep browsing data in the browser, while your browsing data will still remain available to website managers and connectivity providers.
Delete cookies directly
There are specific functions to do this in all browsers. However, remember that every time you connect to the Internet, new cookies are downloaded, so the deletion operation should be performed periodically. If you wish, some browsers offer automated systems for the periodic deletion of cookies.
*This sheet was created before the application of EU Regulation 679/2016, which took place on May 25, 2018, a circumstance to be taken into account when consulting
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